Also Quote by Michael Leunig

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive…

— Camille Paglia

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or…

— Sigmund Freud

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

— Anonymous

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined…

— Bertha von Suttner

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than…

— Herbert Marcuse

“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his…

— Joseph Sandler

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult…

— Graham Joyce

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles…

— Charles Inglis

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with…

— Aleister Crowley

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

— Josef Pieper

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts